New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-05
OPENING MUSEUMS ON SUNDAY.
TALK WITH GENERAL ID CESNOLA.

HE CORRECTs SOME PUBLISHED MEASUREMENTS
AND PUTS THE FACTS IN THE TRUE LIGHT.
General Louis r. D Cesnola the director OF the Metro
poIitan Museum Art. sitting in his library last
evening at his home In East Fiftysevenhs win ITO
lessor Hail. a curator OF the museum. when TRIBUNE
reporter INQUIRED II trustees had taken any
action toward opening the museum on sunday Inc
library Il in the front basement which in most New-fork
houses Is used as "A dinng-room A WOOD nre burhed
cheerfully in the CRATE The is quietly furnished
rows OF books concealed the walls Only the panels III
the ceiling frescoed in buo nts after Cyprote design
OF 900 years ago. Indicated the owners taste
Nothing has been done by the trustees about opening
the museum Sunday. General Cesnoa repi'd 10 'he
question. What will be done Icannot say TWO OF three
Of the trustees strongly opposed 10 such scp whe
some Of the younger in favor OF H. II has never
been discussed voted Personally am In FAVOR OF
the movement and think that will come in time but
as the director OF the museum knowing It's cohdiuoh'
am not I'm favor or It nj present have not said as the
Herod on Sunday made say. that twothirds OF the
trustees we're opposed to Sunday opening"
Does that interview express your views In other
respects 7"
INV views" exclaimed the General. Indignantly.
WHY should make such absurd and diotc statements
II was an utterly fabulous aud distorted statement Oh
nv views | never would that agreed with Mt.
VanderDits sentiment, The people he BANKED rs
reported in that article Incver believed Mr. Nahderp"t
EXPRESSED such a sentiment | do not baspheme anu
would not make such an ungentemaniy remark. But
che whole interview is OF sort There Is no por
trait in this room OF myself which the article says was
frowning over my head What does IL mean
when IL makes say the trustees 81"
! pathze with In this senumcntf Ana '-'
If the city did not give us enough money, then woul
not heat the that would let the pnhnc come
mere and freeze when they got s,n would set them
mn among the satuary That Is scandalous. do not
dcspse the public IA IL seems the intention OF This
article TO make me appear TO do. My family have been
gentlemen for years. What said was that II Tue
city did not appropriate sufficient money To heat inc
| building the museum would have 10 he closei, or
| n by the conditions tbs trustees were obliged to
omen the museum the visitors would freeze in
| winter The public has rights In the museum that
no one will deny II ia public Institution In the same
sense that "A college H. for the education OF the people,
but the trustees night by the contract To Impose
certain regulations In their management Of 1t according
! 10 the conditions under which il was established "hIle
the museum has been established for the people and We
want the public Ia it, still does not belong TO
:" fne article makes you say that you do not consler
the museum pd"hc institution ....,u. III,
That is true enough but the words are not mine hey
are taken bodily from the report OF the pr-dcu Jonh
Taylor Johnston The city has granted me use " ."v
binding for museum under certain '",. u ' o,r
lnnnd To exhibit works al art IN II; or tna We c""H
yncatc at three months notice. on ue roa ~ i W
uy and on other holidays we have great crowns oI 'el
tn,. They are OF the poorer people, nit thcy nav
always Dre1 aN Vim tt the ocrs and scum WOO go the
an, -uud,,s here. and that they
m, the respectable working class nut 'h" rVEn
element | do not know who x" tn the menhsrtie ann
would never say such thing n that ""ulu nav" no
rnnsc a. what tl say was thai lhe tTam ana l"ic
al the Park would he more numerous IN iitSc Ci""",
aud hat largcr numi"r oil htlchudnts "ouu
m uccr.sarv 10 watch the NIuthl" collection On h".l-
dvs we have often nrr,,sfci pie k0ckcts IN The muse
+, - ,sonfely falls. in the report that SAID
th,f Mr. Crmmin~ The museum on
and that he put out "a n Park Commissioner 'I
rtn,,lus had "A rigbt 10 enter the museum wien ue
n,n,rd and he always cArd 'oui ,tou@y W I"'o
siirtnyS. even rue pltHi-
AM of the iunacuu W"i require one 10 obtain Muis
| s,nn Nr Cuumns dbl nDf have pass ANA Tue "atci-
man door had no authority 10 ddlll hh' rue :"
I,o,.rturnt did r'~'ilunn tnUuiNt'l Viat
No. ,u.etm should opened Sunlal, but si,h actlnn
49,. recommended III" trustees by the couhSsiohcrs
,,, uoth words without common sense when lie makes
mo "a, that million dollar Wa gwen 10 thc muse,
wnuid tell the city Ia take back the hu1lhs anu we
| wonld build una have no authority 10 make
| such $tateIncnt-. ,.,.. ... b.. ,,o
d,vs ON which admission - cbarsedF asked the reporter
They reach about 5000 Ihi> - bu II sinai sum 10
ward The mnntauhncc OF the museum Oul these paying
DAYS are important 10 those who come 10 tue museum "
study a. they not then hnnoNcd o} Largo Vlom 10
| of visii,rs When building Is nns"ed IL VIII
have no doubt cost about $4,000 TO MAINTAIN IL now
mo cn.t /. $4,000 There are fifteen or twenty
mo-. VIVA contribute this money Les. what the clty ippr
ora,.> about $1,000 The Connections are "Orih o. eI
900 600 nd would sell AT au, ton ior more IMAM thr
ihey contain many articles oi ancient J'NcHy !" Pu
goi BEFORE any thing he done ONa'd opening III,
Hm,eun Oh SUNDAY action Viii nave TO oe considered
| nj n regular meeting and voted on. lie next ieEulal
| n',et,no will ne held in u few weeks. There Is JOIN
cnnnttee of The trustees OF the Art Museum ahd th'
Museum of Natural History that has had tAs suOJec
referred 10 II. but has as yet made no report